CAI Semi-complete

[AaronGTR]

Dang, wish I had known you were looking for intake parts. I have several 3" and 3.5" pieces of piping along with silicone couplers and t-bolt clamps left over from my project I am trying to get rid of... oh well.

So is that 110 octane leaded or unleaded? I thought the highest unleaded you could find was 104? If it is leaded but it's only 4-5 gallons, you could mix that in with a tank or two of unleaded high octane and dilute it. It's still not good for you O2 sensor or you cat, but a few gallons diluted won't kill them immediately. You'd have to run a couple tanks of straight leaded to totally junk them. You will pick up a few octane points that way, but like everyone already said, it's probably not going to do you any good. If you are going to play with fuel octane and ignition timing, you really need to do it on a dyno where you can see the point of diminishing returns.

[3400-95-Modified]

Just because you can run more advance w/o picking up knock doesn't mean you should.. Just a few degrees too much can cause a drastic power loss. Anything over 28 degrees @ WOT and mine is unhappy.

I'll have to take that into consideration... I've been touching 30* advance on my car and I'm starting to wonder if that's too much.

[95SleeperAcheiva]

Aaron! figures! no worries, I'll be needing more soon. Especially the T=bolt clamps, aero seals aint cuttin it. Round up what 3.5" you got and let me know.

[1988GTU]

VP is the way to go (for boost!) !

But likely you will not need that 110 with what you have. You dont have 100, 101, 104 (all those are unleaded by me) ?? Those would have been a better fuel to use and not kill o2's.

[Superdave]

I'll have to take that into consideration... I've been touching 30* advance on my car and I'm starting to wonder if that's too much.

Could be, i run all my 3400 tunes at 24-28 in the WOT cells, i've only had 1 show knock. it can also depend on how rich your tune is at WOT.

[geldartb]

what do you have done to your engine to require the use of 110 octane.

from the looks of your garage here all you have is a stock 3400 a 3500 uim and a 75mm tb and a redneck exhaust setup.

[Superdave]

If you need some more 3.5" pipe just let me know.. i bought a 4' stick and i'm only going to use about 12" of it.. lol


I did buy steel though, that way i can use it for more than just intakes...

[Alxsmt]

ebay charge pipe kits work great for cheap intakes! but asylum has found out short WAIs seem to be faster at the track

btw what kind of times are you getting??

[95SleeperAcheiva]

best time ever was a 14.56. I seem to run consistent 14.70's. I'm posted on the time board here. By posted times, the 11th fastest car. About 5 up from geldartb. :P

I got the 110 because i couldn't get the 100 or 104 local. I was trying to make sure stupid little things like 3 year old gas wasn't what was slowing me down. and the 110 (Marathon) is unleaded, i found that out today.

Here's my fear. I fear dropping $4500 into this motor, going to the track and pulling a low 15. I've improved this car alot with what I've done and all for under a grand so far. I did most of it by hand on a tight budget. Lots of P&P work. The whole time I was grinding away thinking, "god my hands hurt, god this is taking forever, god I hope I don't grind though to the other side and have to start all over again, god i hope i don't grind too much and slow her down more, what the hell am I doing anyway!?" It was a learning experience. I can't fathom how someone could stand there for hours on end as a job to P&P. I don't have that kind of patience.

So next year with the rest of my completion in work, it better see 13's, and damn close to 12's, or she's going to have a date with about 8 ounces of C4 and 12 ounces of magnesium.

[AaronGTR]

It was a learning experience. I can't fathom how someone could stand there for hours on end as a job to P&P. I don't have that kind of patience.

It definitely is a learning experience, and you can definitely mess up and make it slower if you don't know what you are doing. The people who do a lot of porting work though, they have better tools that let them do it faster. It's all about the right tools for the job!

So next year with the rest of my completion in work, it better see 13's, and damn close to 12's, or she's going to have a date with about 8 ounces of C4 and 12 ounces of magnesium.

So umm... what all do you have planned for it in that case? It takes a heck of a lot more engine work than you have to get a 3400 into the 13's without boost. Either you have big plans, or you're not being realistic?

[95SleeperAcheiva]

trans work/rebuild, better clutches, shift correction kit, shim accumulators, haven't decided yet on whether I'm going to shift manually or try to program the comp to do it. something for posi! ECU upgrade, and software obviously. Whole new valve train, cam, etc... 3500 heads, P&P ( no offensive ben but I'm broke so I'll have to do it myself.) I will probably have Ben re-valve and spring it tho. Considering bigger valve but that is a MAJOR expense. Pistons, haven't decided on compression ratio yet, I'll figure that when I'm working the valve train and see if I need to cut reliefs or not. Again if I had money I'd lengthen the rod and shorten the piston, but that would be all custom and that I really can't afford! Balance lower end, shot-peen and polish rods, maybe knife crank if i got some extra money. I would love to get it all frozen dipped but idk how much that would cost and i foresee me struggling financially anyway. (story of my life) bump up to 15" rims on the front, slicks, air-bag the rear suspension (thank you Mars), lots of prayers and daily threats to the car with large caliber weapons to break into the 12's.

if after all that, I still can't get it. I'll boost it. Prob turbo. But if I boost, I want single digits! I will get 9's if I have to boost it. But then again, its what i can afford.

[robertisaar]

9s with FWD is tough....

*cough* tube frame *cough*

[95SleeperAcheiva]

Hey we've all seen the youtube vid of that "grand prick" doing a 9.01 sec pass, he aint tube framed, and he's a W-body, much heavier. I think we should be able to get a 3400/3500/3900 into the 9's.

Also I forgot, winter mods include, full manual brake set-up (2-line system), line-locks, manual steering conversion, electric water pump, timing cover mod for it, and relocation of alt, maybe tube-headers too, of my own "REDNECK" design dumping out the sides again. I even got compliments on my "REDNECK" exhaust.
Several people thought I bought it from pacesetter or something.

[robertisaar]

possible? yes, but much more effort/time/money required than making it RWD... or hell even AWD, get some Syclone/Typhoon Version 2 action going on with a heavily boosted 3900...

[geldartb]

best time ever was a 14.56. I seem to run consistent 14.70's. I'm posted on the time board here. By posted times, the 11th fastest car. About 5 up from geldartb. :P

and you have a gutted interior and your car weighs 500lbs less than mine and i drive mine to and from the track.

that 15.2 was with some bullshit tune from milzy. now if i had gutted the shit out of the interior it would have been mid 14's.

put that 500lbs back in your car and youll be right at the same time i pulled with a stock drivetrain.